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Peachtree Charter Middle School
PCMS eNews
September 15, 2013

Peachtree Charter Middle School

4664 North Peachtree Road

Dunwoody, Georgia  30338-5898
(678) 676-7702    

 

Our Mission    

 Through a spirit of teamwork, Peachtree Charter Middle School supports students in realizing their academic and personal dreams.  

 
This Week's PCMS Calendar

Mon
09/16
Volleyball A @Chamblee High School, 5:30pm vs Chamblee and 6:30pm vs Alatoona
Tue
09/17
4.5 Week Progress Reports Issued
Tue
09/17
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night @ Perimeter CFA from 5-8
Tue
09/17
Executive Council Meeting @ 4:30 PM
Wed
09/18
Patriot Press Meeting in room 731 at 8:20 am
Thu
09/19
PCMS Foundation Board Meeting @ 7:45 AM
Fri
09/20
Cultural Arts Program - 6th Grade
Sat
09/21
Football Game: PCMS vs. Redan (N. Dekalb) @ 9 AM
Sat
09/21
PCMS Living Garden - Extreme Makeover @ 1 PM
Sat
09/21
Volleyball A&B @ Centennial High School vs JR Knight Playdate (various schools) 8:30am


This week's eNEWS highlights:
Attendance Awareness Month
Register for the CV Classic
Spirit Wear Update
Volunteer for the CV Classic
Tuesday is Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Join the Patriot Press!
Extreme Makeover is SATURDAY!
PCMS Arts Festival - Mark your calendars!
This week in PCMS Volleyball
Dunwoody Girls Lacrosse
Give with Target
Guns and Hoses
Water Essay Contest
Earth Club
Calling all Artists
Dunwoody Jr Wildcats Fall Camps
Attendance Awareness Month

Good attendance will help your children do well in school, college and at work. Your
children can suffer academically if they miss instructional time in the classroom. All
attendance absences represent lost time in the classroom and a lost opportunity to learn.
Improving student attendance is an essential, cost-effective but often overlooked strategy
for ensuring our students are on-track to learn and succeed. Nationwide, as many as one
out of 10 students are chronically absent, meaning they miss 10 percent or more of school
days, or nearly a month. Chronic absence is a leading, early warning indicator of academic trouble and later dropout.

Remember:
  • Parents need to monitor how many days their student misses school for any reason- excused, unexcused or suspensions.
  • Good attendance helps children do well in school and eventually in the workplace.
  • Excused and unexcused absences easily add up to too much time lost in the classroom.
  • Chronic absences, missing 10 percent of the school year or more, does not just affect the students who miss school.
  • Reducing chronic absence can help close achievement gaps.
  • Relationship building is fundamental to any strategy for improving student attendance.
  • Chronic absences are a problem we can solve when the whole community, along with parents and schools, get involved in improving attendance.
Adapted from AttendanceWorks.Org
September 2013
School Social Worker's Spotlight

Absences Add Up
The Georgia Compulsory Attendance Law (O.C.G.A. 20-2-60.1)
Georgia law states that any child between the ages of 6-16 must attend school. Any parent/guardian
who do not comply with compulsory attendance law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not less than $25.00 and not greater than $100.00, imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, community services, or any combination of such penalties, at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction. Each day's absence from school in violation of this part after the child's school system notifies the parent/guardian of five (5) unexcused absence shall constitute a separate offense.

 

CV Classic 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run

October 5th - 8 am

Celebrate Our New Track


It's not too late to sign up for the 4th Annual CV Classic 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run at Peachtree Charter Middle School. Registration is $25 per entry and includes a nice Dri-Fit event shirt and a goody bag filled with items from our sponsors.

 

Come celebrate the opening of our new track and run with your classmates and neighbors.

 
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Our Partners in Education
 Bank of North Georgia 
Cartridge World 
Chick-fil-A 
Domino's 
Dunwoody Rotary Club 
Guthrie's 
Huntington Learning Center 
Jersey Mike's 
Kaplan Orthodontics 
Kroger 
Nokia Siemens Networks 
Northside Hospital 
Pearle Vision 
Plantation South  
     of Dunwoody 
Rita's Italian Ice 
Shane's Rib Shack 
Subway 

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Media Center  

 

Attendance Office 

 

CV Classic

 

Peer Proofing

Elana Morris elana2444@gmail.com or  Bill McDonald billymac767@me.com   

 

 

 

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Spirit Wear Update 

  
The PCMS Spirit Wear reorders are in!   Stop by the School Store from 8:15-8:45 to pick up some of the cool t-shirts ($12-$15), performance shirts ($15), zipped hoodies ($25) and regular hoodies and crews ($20).  Supplies are limited so stock up now!

 
Volunteers Needed for CV Classic Run
 
Please come and help out with preparations for this fun race!  Volunteers are needed to help with filling race bags, handing out race nos./bags on Tuesday Oct 1st., Thursday Oct 3rd. and Friday Oct 4th., as well as help with set up and clean up on the day of the race - Saturday October 5th. 
Please sign up for the date(s) and time(s) that you are able to volunteer using the following Sign Up Genius link.   
 

 

Many thanks for volunteering!   Contact Louise Headland at mcmuland@comcast.net if you have any questions.
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 9/17
 
Gather your fellow Patriots for Spirit Night at the Perimeter Point Chick-fil-A  Tuesday, 9/17, from 5-8 pm!! If you mention PCMS when you order, our football/cheerleader programs get 10% of the proceeds! Students receive free ice-cream with purchase!  Mom and Dad don't have to cook and yummy ice dream toppings await! Yay! A Win-Win-Win! 
Patriot Press

Extra! Extra! Want to write all about it? Patriot Press is looking for inspiring writers and reporters. Come be a part of the school newspaper!
If you have a serious interest, come to Ms. Heyward's room, 731, on Wednesday, September 18th at 8:20 am. Come in advance if you need a pass.

EXTREME MAKEOVER

for the 

PCMS Living Classroom Fence Line

 

Saturday, September 21 1-4 pm

 

Be a part of the Fall 2013 

"Bush Bonanza" and Landscape Design Challenge!

All students and families welcome.  Bring shovels, wheelbarrows and gloves.

 

Share your favorite bushes such as lantana, butterfly, beauty berry, and any other

hardy sun loving bushes from your yard or local nursery.  

 

Vines such as star jasmine, trumpet flower, etc. also accepted!

 

These will be planted on the outside of the fence line.

 

Receive Volunteer Hours!

 

Remember, they need to survive full sun!

Donate a bag of planting soil to help!

 

Help us transform the fence line into a work of art in just 4 hours!

We will plant as many bushes as we can get around the outside border of the garden.

 

Great schools are cultivated...we need your help.

 

Contact Susan Wofford with questions or details on our wish list: susanwofford@gmail.com
PCMS Arts Festival

Mark your calendars for October 5th! The PCMS Arts Festival will have live music, raffles, contest, food, fun and great displays of art. "Enchanted" the movie will be shown under the stars! Armbands are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students.
Peachtree Volleyball

Come out and support the PCMS Volleyball team this week for their upcoming games.
 
Monday, September 16, 2013
Volleyball A @Chamblee High School, 5:30pm vs Chamblee and 6:30pm vs Alatoona

Saturday, September 21, 2013
Volleyball A&B @ Centennial High School vs JR Knight Playdate (various schools) 8:30am

 

Dunwoody Girls Lacrosse
Dunwoody Girls Lacrosse has begun its fall conditioning and training program. The conditioning sessions are led by Head Coach Rowe on Tuesday`s & Thursday`s at DHS. Coach Maggie Underdahl (who is Captain for the Ga. Tech girls lacrosse squad) teaches stick training on Wednesday`s & Saturday`s at our practice field located at North Peachtree Baptist Church. Be sure to take advantage of this unique opportunity to have your daughter trained by veterans of the game! Please visit www.DunwoodyGirlsLacrosse.org for more information.

Vote for PCMS in "Give with Target" Campaign

  

 

 

Don't forget to place your vote for PCMS in the Give with Target fundraiser. Each weekly vote earns $1 for PCMS!!  

 

Simply visit http://givewith.target.com/ and search for Peachtree Charter Middle School to vote!!

   

 

 

Guns and Hoses

Coach Gilly (former DHS Baseball Coach) is spearheading the 2nd Annual Guns & Hoses Event.  The Dunwoody Police Dept. is having this Fundraiser Softball Game for children's charities on Saturday, Oct. 5 beginning at 9am at Dunwoody Senior Park (4 teams - 2 Police and 2 Fire). Think of who you would call first if you needed help...so please give a couple of hours to support them. Coach Gilly will be at the DHS Baseball Field on Monday 9-16 @ 7pm and Dunwoody Senior (DSB) Tuesday 9 -17 at 7pm...if you'd like to meet in person to discuss how you can get involved or feel free to contact him at 770-842-1117 or jg@gillysnow.com .Thanks!!! GILLY

 

http://www.mydropcounts.org

 

District-wide Winner: $500 Cash

County Winners: $100 Cash

 

PCMS Earth Club

  

Come help improve the Fence Line of the "PCMS Living Classroom" on Saturday, September 21st from 1:00-4:00. Bring sunloving bushes or climbing vines to

plant. Tell your parents they can earn service hours.

 

Also, Earth Club, formally the Garden Club will meet Tuesday, September 20th at 8:10am outside the front doors of school. Permanent passes will be given out at that time.

  

 

Calling All Artists

  

All grades, whether you are taking Art or not! There will be a huge art exhibit at PCMS this semester, so we need you to make some awesome art work for our show!

 

Get a pass to come to the Art Room Tuesday or Thursday mornings and Mrs. Cygnarowicz will give you the right size materials to make some artwork for our show! You can stay in the Art Room and work in the mornings or take your supplies home and bring them back when finished. We  will be framing your work for sale, so let's get started and show what we can do.

 

Anyone in the school can participate - all you have to do is WANT to make some ART

Dunwoody Junior Wildcats Fall Camp

 

Dunwoody Jr Wildcats Volleyball now registering for Fall Camp
 
The Dunwoody Junior Wildcats is now registering girls for their fall volleyball program.
 
The three-week program will run Oct. 7-28 at the gymnasium at Peachtree Charter Middle School from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday nights. The six sessions are open to current 4th through 8th graders and will help players develop their skills on the court through group drills and competitive play. Players that are new to the sport as well as experienced players are welcome.
 
Sessions are designed to teach proper volleyball mechanics in a fun, safe, and learning environment that will challenge players to do their best in every drill and skill. Our coaches also provide a lot of individual attention for overall skill improvement.  
 
The cost is $95 per player. Each player will receive a Junior Wildcats T-shirt. You can download a copy of the registration form at dunwoodyvolleyball.com under the Junior Wildcats section. Or follow the link below: http://dunwoodyvolleyball.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/9/0/19908637/final_registration_form_fall_2013.pdf
 
For more information, contact Junior Wildcats director Steve Goldin at 770-350-5532  or by email at sgoldin106@aol.com. You can also call Lead Instructor Brent Bridger at 678-687-1898  or email totalathletesports@gmail.com.
Sent By:
The Parent Teacher Charter Council at Peachtree Charter Middle School. 

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GO PATRIOTS!